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I'm not surprised this book is so highly rated, but when you look even just a little deeper than the surface, all you see are red flags and flaws. This book was not good. One of the worst I've read this year.

April is living in a motorless motorhome alone, her father having found a new family with a woman in town. April never felt like home in Little River, and she's never felt like anyone cared if she was around. After a huge fight with her dad, April decides to leave town and try to create a new life.

Now, that sounds like a great start, right? It was! Until she left. And that's all she does - leave. Instead of telling the truth about literally anything, April lies, and lies, and lies some more. She has people offering to help her and instead of being decent, she just leaves. She can't even face the people, she just writes a note and leaves in the middle of the night.

And let's not ignore the fact that at age 16, she tells an almost 30-year-old man that she is 19, and proceeds to have a sexual relationship with him. She lies some more, realizes people are getting too close to her, and instead of being a normal human and just telling the truth, she leaves.

She finds her next "home" with my favorite character, Ethan. My problem here is that Ethan is the most stereotypical gay character ever. A gay man working in drama? Really?

Then of course, instead of COMMUNICATING and solving her current problem, she just leaves. And goes back home? To the place she ran from and swore to never return to? And leaves again without saying goodbye to the one person who has been consistent for her? To go back to the worst guy she was with?

All of her problems could have been solved or avoided with just telling the truth for once in her entire life. It was so annoying to read.

This girl is the most idiotic, frustrating, manipulative, just plain DUMB character I've ever read. This is my 187th book of 2021, so if that tells you anything... This book was bad. The writing was so juvenile - has this author ever heard of a compound sentence? Goodness. Also, the author used terms that weren't a thing back in the 90s when this book was to take place.